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An Open Challenge to the Open Source Community: Make it or Break it! | November 29, 2007
TORONTO, Nov. 28 /CNW/ - Today, the SQL Power Group announced that it is offering prizes to the Open Source developer community, challenging them to "Make or Break" their newest free software offering, the Power(*)MatchMaker Data Cleansing Tool.
In the Open Source community, where anyone can dissect your software code for free, impostors are quickly weeded out by fellow geeks who can't wait to prove their worth by pointing out the shortcomings of others' offerings. So instead of merely boasting that they've written the best code for the job, one company is trying to prove it. With their "Make it or Break It" contest (http://www.sqlpower.ca/makeitorbreakit), SQL Power Group is challenging anyone in the worldwide community to find flaws (bugs) in their new Power(*)MatchMaker software. The Power(*)MatchMaker is a Data Cleansing Tool, which can be run on any database platform to maximize data quality. Being cross-platform, easy-to-use, and free to deploy would make it an invaluable tool for database users across the globe - if it works as well as they say it does.
"This contest serves 2 purposes," says Jonathan Fuerth, lead programmer at SQL Power. "It's partly a thank-you to the community for making (our previous Open Source release) the Power(*)Architect a success... but it's mainly to remind them that Open Source is only as good as they make it." While the prizes are not necessarily extravagant (USB flash drives and T-Shirts are the current spoils), there's a lot to be said for the bragging rights that come from wearing a limited-edition T-shirt that gloats (and proves) to fellow developers "I AM a better programmer than you." In fact, for a community that deals in free software, that may be the most valuable prize of all.
For further information: about the Power(*)MatchMaker contest, visit http://www.sqlpower.ca/makeitorbreakit; For more information or to schedule an interview, contact Giulio Quaglieri at giulio@sqlpower.ca, or (416) 221-4220 ext. 250, SQL Power Group Inc., 2110-4950 Yonge St., Toronto, ON, M2N 6K1, www.sqlpower.ca
© 2005 CNW Group Ltd, all rights reserved
In the Open Source community, where anyone can dissect your software code for free, impostors are quickly weeded out by fellow geeks who can't wait to prove their worth by pointing out the shortcomings of others' offerings. So instead of merely boasting that they've written the best code for the job, one company is trying to prove it. With their "Make it or Break It" contest (http://www.sqlpower.ca/makeitorbreakit), SQL Power Group is challenging anyone in the worldwide community to find flaws (bugs) in their new Power(*)MatchMaker software. The Power(*)MatchMaker is a Data Cleansing Tool, which can be run on any database platform to maximize data quality. Being cross-platform, easy-to-use, and free to deploy would make it an invaluable tool for database users across the globe - if it works as well as they say it does.
"This contest serves 2 purposes," says Jonathan Fuerth, lead programmer at SQL Power. "It's partly a thank-you to the community for making (our previous Open Source release) the Power(*)Architect a success... but it's mainly to remind them that Open Source is only as good as they make it." While the prizes are not necessarily extravagant (USB flash drives and T-Shirts are the current spoils), there's a lot to be said for the bragging rights that come from wearing a limited-edition T-shirt that gloats (and proves) to fellow developers "I AM a better programmer than you." In fact, for a community that deals in free software, that may be the most valuable prize of all.
For further information: about the Power(*)MatchMaker contest, visit http://www.sqlpower.ca/makeitorbreakit; For more information or to schedule an interview, contact Giulio Quaglieri at giulio@sqlpower.ca, or (416) 221-4220 ext. 250, SQL Power Group Inc., 2110-4950 Yonge St., Toronto, ON, M2N 6K1, www.sqlpower.ca
© 2005 CNW Group Ltd, all rights reserved
